Electric condenser



Aug. v29, 1939 uw, BAUNSCHWEIG 2,171,23

ELECTRI C CONDENSER Filed Jn. 25, 195e INVENTOR. WERNER BRAUNSCHWEIG ATTORNEY.

i arranged-'with their emisor the Patentes Aug. 2 9, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE morale coNDENsEB.

Y tion of Germany Application January 25, 193s, serial Nascar:

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denser constructionhaving elements consisting of aluminum foil or lamination oxidized throughout its surface.

It is known from the prior art to use tenuous oxide lms upon aluminum vfoil to act as a dielectric so as to obtain a capacitive action. It is also known that the best arrangement from an electrical and thermal viewpoint is to apply upon the oxide film a further layer of metal in such a way that the oxidized foil being metallized upon its oxidized surface, as it were, will form and constitute a condenser unit'or elementary condenser which is independent of external pressure or other stratication phenomena.

However, serious difllculties arise whenever an attempt is made to assemble from such oxidized aluminum'foils known in the prior arf andrepresenting elementary construction units a condenser by means of stratification comprising parallel connected condenser coats.

According to the invention, easy parallel assembling is possible if the constituent foils. or lamellae are vso arranged and shaped that upon parts of the oxide layer additional metallic coats are applied in such a manner that upon each face of the constituent element both a bare aluminum surface as well as an additional metallized surface acting as coats ci' opposite polarity are disposed.

A number ci exempliilcd embodiments of the basic idea of the invention are illustrated inthe accompanying drawing in which-'- Figure 1a is a top view of a single foil dielectric and conductor forming a condenser unit.'v

Fig. lb is a bottom view of Fig. la, and

Fig. 1c is a section 'of Figures 1a and'lb, the

section being taken on line I-I of Fig. 1a,

Fig. 2 is a section of another embodiment of a single condenser unit,

Fig. 2ais a bottom view F18. 2b is a bottom Fig. 2c isa bottomiviefw o! a modication of` Fig. 2e,

Fig. 2d is a section of Fig. 2b, Fig. 2e is a section of Fig. 2c,-

Fig.` 3 is a perspective view 'of Figs. 2 and 2a,A

Ishowing a partialbend at the ends o! the condenser unit,

Fig'. 3a'is a section of Fig. 3, sliowvingacoinplete bend at the ends of the condenser unit,

Fig. 4-isa diagram showing two condenser umts same polarity connected together,

ermany February 25, 1935 This-invention relates to a new and novel condenser units arranged with their ends of polarity connected together,

' Referring now in detail'to Figs. l'flb and 1c, an aluminum foil which has been partially oxidized upon both of its fiat faces excepting at the points marked I is shown. On top of the par# tially oxidized vsurface or coated insulated side area margins 2,.a metallized layer 3 is provided by some suitable process upon both sides. One electrode will then consist iof the surfaces l oi' the two iiat faces, while the other electrode consists of the conducting surfaces 3--3. The two electrodes l and 3 are separated by the creepage paths llformedby the emension of oxidized surface 2. This assembly then forms a single condenser element. Y

When assembling a, condenser comprising aA opposite A plurality of superposed single condenser elements voi the kind hereinbeidre described, theyare so placed on top of one another that the insulating creepage paths 4 of contiguous elements will come tore'gister.

According to another embodiment, the construction of unitcondenser elements can be made by bending over the edges oi-originally planar lamellae formedroughly in a way as shown in section by Figs. 2, 2a,4 2b, and 2e. These forms of lamellae have this joint characteristic feature that they are oxidized only on one flat side wholly or partly, and that portions of `the oxidized surface are then metallized. The way a lamelle. or foil Fig. 2a forms a condenser construction element or unit is shown in Fig. 3

(which is aperspective view of aconstruction.

element of Fig. 2 with ends bent over). Fig.

3a shows a sectional elevation of finished condenser e'lement. For instance, if a lamellae of portion, the two being separated by an insulatingv 'creepage space. When assembling a stack con'- denser, pairs of adjacent elementary parts may be so superposed that either the contact'points of similar polarity can make contact (see Fig. 4) or else. thatv the contact points-oi. different metallic'polaiity vare in connection and contact with one another (Fig. 5).

In still another embodiment, the condenser elementsmay be constructed as shown by Fig. 2b,

bare on both faces to provide a greater contact wherein one end of the metallic foils is entirely 11g. 5 is a diagramshowing two singlelcon-LQ surface at one of the ends.` Also, in Fig. 2c, a condenser element is shown wherein both ends of the metallic foil are entirely bare on a pori tion of both faces to provide greater contact .surfaces at both of the ends.

sheet having a minor portion of its surface coated with oxide and a major portion uncoated.

2. A condenser element comprising a metallic sheet which serves as an electrode, a major portion of one surface of said sheet having an insulating coating forming a condenser dielectric portion, a minor portion of said surface being uncoated, a major portion of said insulating coating having a metallized layer serving as the other condenser electrode, the other surface of said sheet having a minor portion of its surface coated.

with insulation and a major portionv uncoated,

the major and minor portions of` said coated and uncoated portions of one surface being located opposite the minor and major portions respectively of the other surface.

WERNER BRAUNSCHWEIG. 

